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Panu Saaristo on NCDs in humanitarian settings: why local leadership is the missing key to humanitarian health
By Panu Eskola Saaristo, TGLF Fellow for Humanitarian Health Somewhere in a flooded district this week, a woman is trying to work out where next week’s insulin will come from. A man is learning that the clinic where he had his cancer follow-up is closed. They are not thinking about the humanitarian system. They are…
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Climate change and health: from flood to funder
The London Climate Week launch on 21 June 2026 of a new call from global partners turned three years of listening to community-based health workers into money on the table. What the room did not decide is whether the money will reach them the same way the listening did. In Fada, Burkina Faso, what happens…
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Menopause: what health workers already know, in their own words
On 22 June 2026, The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) in partnership with Menoglobal, launched the peer learning course “Beyond the hot flash: A primer for health workers about menopause”. This article explores the experiences and insights that learners shared in their first week. When you were asked to describe yourselves on the first day of…
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Rapid gender analysis: what we know so far about the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, more than half of the people who are getting sick with Ebola are women and girls. This has happened in past Ebola outbreaks too. This Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA) reviews what the evidence shows, and what it does not yet show, about gender in this outbreak.…
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Talk to the evidence: a chat interface to explore what health workers know and do about climate change and health
The Geneva Learning Foundation has opened a conversational way into three years of frontline evidence on climate change and health. You can now ask questions, in plain language, of the reports and accounts that thousands of health workers built, and get answers drawn only from what they actually said. Learn more about The Geneva Learning…
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Teach to Reach: The music made in the room (article 1 of 3)
The first of three articles on the 4 June 2026 Teach to Reach Launch Event, this is the story of an hour that dissolved every border between the people in the room, and of why a frontline nurse, a markets economist, and a physiology lecturer turned out to belong in the same conversation. There is…
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Teach to Reach: what we do when there is fear in every health worker (article 2 of 3)
The second of three articles on the 4 June 2026 Teach to Reach launch event, this one explores health worker responses to the Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak and asks the question an epidemiologist cannot dodge: what is a roomful of self-selected stories actually good for, and why might it matters. A suspected Ebola patient walked…
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Teach to Reach: honoring TGLF’s Scholars as leaders (article 3 of 3)
When you hand someone a microphone to celebrate them, most people tell you a success story. At this event, a teacher used his moment to confess a problem he cannot solve, and a lecturer described smuggling climate change into a medical curriculum. The last of three articles on the 4 June 2026 Teach to Reach…
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Beyond the hot flash: A primer for health workers about menopause
Ageing primer | Equity programme | Gender in emergencies Menopause affects every woman who lives long enough. Yet in most health systems, it is invisible. No screening. No vocabulary. No budget. Women suffer in silence. And the system looks the other way. You are here to change that. Invite your colleagues on WhatsApp, Gmail, Yahoo…
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Teach to Reach: A question without a network, a course without experience, a network without action (article 4 of 4)
Teach to Reach is the largest peer learning platform, network, and community by and for health and humanitarian workers — launched by The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) in January 2021 out of an immunization training programme during the COVID-19 pandemic, and now in its fifth year. As part of TGLF’s tenth anniversary, each month a…
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